List of the Hesse-Kassel regiments of the early modern period

The present list of the regiments of Hesse-Kassel from the early modern period ends with the dissolution of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel by Napoleon and its incorporation into the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1807 . Previously, on November 1, 1806 , Elector Wilhelm I had declared the regiments of the Hessian army "on leave". This is the basis of the later tradition even after the annexation of the country by Prussia in 1866. ^[1]

Since the 16th century, a large number of regiments that only existed temporarily were set up, mostly on the occasion of campaigns. They are not yet part of this overview. The regiments of Hessen-Kassel received special attention when they were rented to King George III. from Great Britain for use in the American War of Independence . Over 12,000 men fought in the New World. Above all, however, the Hesse-Kassel regiments fought alongside the British troops in West Germany in the Seven Years' War .

Explanation of the system

A master list and numbering of the infantry regiments of the Hesse-Kassel army was not introduced. The designation was based on the name of the regiment owner . The list includes the regiments that existed in the long term in the order of their formation and is named after Bleckwenn . ^[2] In addition, the year of foundation was added to the list. This is intended to facilitate comparability. This numbering follows the Ticino line-up. ^[3] If several regiments were founded in one year, Tessin added a second number (e.g. "1683/5" = fifth Hesse-Kassel regiment, which was set up in 1683). The names of theRegiment chiefs or the name of the commander.

Meaning of the symbols used: "*" = foundation, "†" = dissolution, ">" = whereabouts, "<" = origin, "=" = double function as a standing regiment of an imperial estate.

Tribe list 1756–1763

Infanterieregimenter

Infanterieregiment No. 1 (1683/4)

* Founded in 1683 as Lippe zu Fuß - 1684 Life Regiment (Commander: Alexander Hermann von Wartensleben (1684–1685)) - 1699 Life Guards - 1731 Life Guards - 1751 Guards - 1760 3rd Guards (1763–1784 in the Guards Regiment) - † 1788> II Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 13 > Tradition adopted in 1866 from: Fusilier Regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80

Infanterieregiment No. 2 (1683/5)

* Founded in 1683 as Prince Philipp zu Fuß - 1685 Alexander Hermann von Wartensleben - 1690 IW Rotarius - 1692 Ludwig Sittich von Schlitz, called von Goertz - 1696 Otto H. von Löwenstein - 1703 F. Stückrath - 1709 Christian Ludwig Motz - 1713 Conrad von Ranck - 1723 LF von Oeppen - 1731 CG Korff - 1734 Etienne de Clement - 1744 IR Baumbach - 1751 OF Hauding - 1757 WF Capellan - 1758 GH von Toll - 1760 GF Bartheld (Fusiliers) - 1770 Heinrich August von Loßberg (from 1780 Alt-Loßberg ) - 1789 Jungkenn - 1789 FW Lossberg - 1799 Linsingen - 1805 Biesenrodt - † 1806

Infanterieregiment No. 3 (1684/2)

* Founded in 1684 as Hanstein - 1690 Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel - 1701 Karl von Hessen-Kassel - 1703 Leopold von Hessen-Kassel - 1704 Ludwig von Hessen-Kassel - 1708 Maximilian von Hessen-Kassel - 1717–1720 as Hessen-Kassel in imperial - Habsburg pay - 1753 Fürstenberg - 1759 Eitel von und zu Gilsa - 1765 Knyphausen - 1784 Donop - † 1789> II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 4th

Infanterieregiment No. 4 (1687/2)

* Founded in 1687 as Prince Karl on foot - Prince Karl - 1701 Prince Wilhelm - 1705 Wilcke - 1709 Dönhoff - 1723 Löwenstein - 1733 August Moritz von Donop - 1748 Johann Casimir von Isenburg-Birstein - 1759 Johann Adolf Ferdinand von Bischhausen - 1762 Wilcke - 1764 Wilhelm Heinrich August von Donop - 1784 Wilhelm zu Innhausen and Knyphausen - 1788 Hanstein - 1789 Heinrich Julius von Kospoth - 1801 Biesenrodt - 1805 Prince Elector Wilhelm - † 1806

Infanterieregiment No. 5 (1688/5)

* Founded in 1688 as Hereditary Prince Friedrich - 1721 King - 1751 Leibregiment - 1760 Heinrich Wilhelm von Wutginau - 1776 Landgrave Friedrich II of Hessen-Kassel - 1783 Leibregiment Fusiliers - 1785 Landgrave Infantry - † 1789> II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 7 > Tradition adopted in 1866 from: 1st Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment No. 81

Infanterieregiment No. 6 (1697)

* Founded in 1697 as grenadiers - 1702 grenadier regiment (1727–1751 regiment chief Prince Wilhelm) - 1760 2nd guard - 1763 regiment guard (regiment chief Carl von Bose) - 1784 2nd guard (guard grenadier regiment) - 1785 guard grenadier -Regiment - † 1806> Tradition 1866 taken over by: Fusilier Regiment "von Gersdorff" (Kurhessisches) No. 80

Infanterieregiment No. 7 (1700)

* Founded in 1700 as Anhalt on foot - Lebrecht von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym - 1703 Prince Ludwig - 1705 Prince Wilhelm - 1727 Prince Friedrich - 1751 Hereditary Prince - 1760 4th Guard - 1760 Leibregiment - 1783 Hereditary Prince Wilhelm - 1785 Leibregiment - 1803 Elector - † 1806> Tradition adopted by: 1st Kurhessisches Infantry Regiment No. 81

Infanterieregiment No. 8 (1702/2)

* Founded in 1702 as Schöpping zu Fuß - 1704 Exterde - 1718 Rau von Holzhausen - 1736 Waldenheim - 1744 Mannsbach - 1763 Friedrich Wallrab von Gräffendorff - 1767 Moritz von Sachsen-Gotha - 1775 Karl Levin von Trümbach - 1778 Karl Ernst Johann von Bose - † 1789 > II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 9

Infanterieregiment No. 9 (1702/1)

* Founded in 1702 as Waiting Life on Foot - 1709 Prince Georg - 1755 Prince Karl - 1805 Landgrave Karl - † 1806

Infanterieregiment No. 10 (1702/4)

* Founded in 1702 as Schenck zu Fuß - 1703 Wartensleben - 1706 Spiegel - 1709 Rahding - 1719 Wutginau - 1727 Wilcke - 1734 Mauermann - 1744 Hessenstein - 1747 Hessenstein - 1748 Hessenstein - 1753 Canitz - 1759 Malsberg - 1766 Wilhelm Maximilian von Ditfurth - 1789 Hanstein - † 1794

Infanterieregiment No. 11 (1745)

* Founded in 1745 as Anhalt on foot - 1770 Werner von Mirbach - 1780 Friedrich Wilhelm von Loßberg (Jung-Lossberg) - † 1789> II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 12th

Infanterieregiment No. 12 (1750)

* Founded in 1750 as Hanau on foot - 1759 Prince Wilhelm - 1760 Hereditary Prince - 1783 Prince Friedrich - 1785 Hereditary Prince - 1803 Elector Prince - 1805 Philipp von Wurmb - † 1806

Infanterieregiment No. 13 (1760/2)

* Founded in 1760 as a guard on foot - 1785 1st Guard - 1788 Guard - † 1806

Infanterieregiment No. 14 (1760/3)

* Founded in 1760 as Blome Grenadiers - 1762 Wülckenitz - 1763 Müller - 1770 Mannsbach - 1771 Johann Gottlieb Rall - 1777 Wolfgang Friedrich von Woellwarth - 1778 Karl Levin von Trümbach - 1779 Ludwig von Angelelli de Malvezzi - 1784 Bischhausen Land Grenadiers - 1787 Johann Justus Schreiber - † 1789> II. Bat. Infantry Regiment No. 2

Cavalry regiments

The following list shows the actual cavalry regiments. In Hessen-Kassel, too, as in other early modern territories, dragoons were not actually considered cavalry. The designation "K 1" etc. follows Bleckwenn and Witzel.

Cavalry Regiment K 1 (1672/1)

* Founded in 1672 as a regiment of Karabiniers under Major Wilhelm von Hornumb - 1683 von Wilke - 1683 Rau zu Holzhausen - 1685 Spiegel zum Desenberg - 1714 Prince Maximilian of Hesse - 1714 von Dittfurth - Spiegel zum Desenberg - 1753 Prince Wilhelm - 1760 Hereditary Prince - † 1765

Cavalry Regiment K 2 (1684/1)

* Founded in 1684 as a body regiment on horseback - 1730 body regiment - 1760 Gens d'Armes - † 1806

Cavalry Regiment K 3 (1704/2)

* Founded in 1704 as Erbach zu Pferde - 1705 Boyneburg - 1738 Gräffendorff - 1749 Miltitz - 1759 Oheimb - 1760 Einsiedel - 1763 Meister - 1764 Schlotheim - 1765 Dragoons (Schlotheim) - 1783 Buttlar - 1787 - 1787 Hyn - † 1788> Dragoon Regiment D II

Cavalry Regiment K 4 (1704/1)

* Founded in 1704 as Hanstein zu Pferde - 1705 Weißenfels - 1713 Diemar - 1735 Gräffendorff - 1738 Ernst Hartmann von Diemar - 1740 Christian Ludwig von Isenburg-Birstein - 1757 Prüschenck - 1761 Wolff - 1775 Leopold Philipp von Heister - 1777 Diemar - 1786 Dalwigk - † 1788> Dragoon Regiment DI

Cavalry Regiment K 5 (1760/1)

* Founded in 1760 as Garde du Corps (2 companies) - 1787 Regiment † 1806

Dragonerregimenter

The numbering is based on Bleckwenn, in contrast to Rudolf Witzel. ^[4]

Dragonerregiment D I (1688/1)

* Founded in 1688 as Nassau-Weilburg -Dragoner - 1689 Lippe - 1694 Tettau - 1696 Hessen-Homburg - 1704 Auerochs - 1731 Blohm (Melchior Johann von Blome) - 1742 Saxe-Gotha - 1757 Prince Friedrich - † 1806

Dragonerregiment D II (1688/2)

* Founded in 1688 as Wartensleben -Dragoner - 1690 Graeffendorff - 1695 Hereditary Prince Friedrich - 1721 King - 1751 Leibregiment Dragoons - † 1806

Hussar regiments

Hussar Corps (1744)

* Founded in 1744 as a hussar corps - 1787 hussar regiment - † 1806

literature

Uwe Peter Böhm: Hessian military. The troops of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel 1672–1806. Edited on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde eV, Beckum 1986.
Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 .
Rudolf Witzel: Hessen Kassel's Army in the Allied Army 1762 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7531-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).
Tribe and ranking list of the Elector's Hessian Army Corps from the 16th century to 1866. ( digitized version ).
List of their chiefs and other officers with the troops. In: Hochfürstlich-Hessen-Casselscher Staats- u. Address calendar for the year of Christ 1764 . Poor, orphanage and foundling house, Cassel 1764, p. 51–74 (orka.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de).

Individual evidence

↑ Marked in the list with "traditional succession". Cf. Fritz Kersten, Georg Ortenburg: Hessian military at the time of the German Confederation . Ed .: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde eV Beckum 1984, p. 6.
↑ Bleckwenn introduced the numbering for most states of the early modern period according to the principle of anciency .
^ Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 , p. 169.
↑ Rudolf Witzel: Hessen Kassel's Army in the Allied Army 1762 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7531-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[1] Marked in the list with "traditional succession". Cf. Fritz Kersten, Georg Ortenburg: Hessian military at the time of the German Confederation . Ed .: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Heereskunde eV Beckum 1984, p. 6.

[2] Bleckwenn introduced the numbering for most states of the early modern period according to the principle of anciency .

[3] Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century . 3 volumes (1986-1995). Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 , p. 169.

[4] Rudolf Witzel: Hessen Kassel's Army in the Allied Army 1762 . BoD - Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-7531-3 ( limited preview in Google book search).